liberty
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”
“Freedom begins between the ears.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue.”
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
“Rare is the felicity of the times when you may think what you like, and say what you think.”
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held.”
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards.”
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.”